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Title: The 100-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory
Date Created and/or Issued: 1949-06
Contributing Institution: Huntington Library
Collection: Photographs
Rights Information: For information on using Huntington Library materials, please see Reproductions of Huntington Library Holdings: https://www.huntington.org/library-rights-permissions
Description: The 100-inch telescope dome as seen from below the 60-inch telescope dome, Mount Wilson Observatory. The shutters are open to the south, Joe Hickox is visible on the exterior catwalk and Tom Nelson is seen standing inside the open shutter. Trees surround the observatory building.
Image courtesy of the Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science Collection at the Huntington Library, San Marino, California.
Type: image
Format: image/tiff
Extent: 1 8X10 print; 1 8X10 film neg
Identifier: COPC 406
28403
http://hdl.huntington.org/cdm/ref/collection/p15150coll2/id/1903
Subject: Mount Wilson Observatory
Observatory domes
Observatories
Roofs
Balconies
Hickox, Joseph O
Nelson, Tom
Trees
Photographic prints. (gmgpc)
Place: Mount Wilson (Calif.)
Source: Photographs, Huntington Digital Library

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